Tool for applying wire-fence stays.



PATENTED DEC. 5, 1905.

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TOOL FOR AP-PLYINGVWIRE FENCE STAYS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 24, 1904.

attic anal UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

JOHN DEAN, OF RACINE, Wisconsin. TOOL FOR APPLYING WIRE-FENOE STAYS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

Application filed December 24, 1904. Serial No. 238,249.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, J OHN DEAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Racine, Racine county, State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tools for Applying Wire-Fence Stays; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

- canbe easily spliced by coiling, and whereby one wire can bereadily coiled on another wire.

The invention consists in certain novel features in construction or in combinations or arrangements of parts, as more fully and particularly' explained hereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 'which show a referred embodiment of my invention mere y as an example for purposes of explanation from among other constructions within the spirit and scope ofmy invention, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a portion of a Wire fence, showing a tool of my invention in the act of coiling a stay on a fence "line-wire. Fig. 2 is an end view of the tool.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the opposite end of.

the tool. Fig. 4 is a front elevation.

The tool shown in the drawings consists of a strong metal bar or rod bent into approximately U. shape, forming the cross-bar or handle ortion 2, and the two usually straight ength. One end of t e rod is bent to form the coil 5 at the end of the arm or leg 3. The rod end is usually bent into a spiral of one open convolution in the form of an eye, having a side opening 6 between the coil extremity and the straight length or leg portion for the easy passage of the line-Wire into the eye or coil. Theo posite end of the rod is bent to form a note ,-reces's, or socket, usually in the form of a hook 7, at the end of the leg 4 and opening inwardly-that is, toward the handle of the implement;v The free end or bill of this hook terminates in a lateral prospaced apart.

t e line-wire, and hence holds the hook from pose, such as old or used fence-wire.

aralle legs 3 4 of ap roximately the same jection S, arranged transversely or at right angles to the plane of the hook. Thispro- {iectlon 8 is preferably formed with a con-.

caved outer face constituting a Wire-receivlng socketor seat 9,term1nat1ng-1n an 11 Wardly-projerting guard 10, to retain t e wire from slipping laterally from said seat.-

' In using the implement'the coil or eye is slipped onto the line-wire and the hook at the opposite end of the implement drops onto the line-wire, so that the device can hang from and slide along the line-wire as the op-' eration of applying the stays progresses and is held inproper position with respect to the line-wire by the hook and coil, which are The coil practically embraces slippingofi during the coiling operation as the implement swings around the line-wire. When one coil has been completed, the implement can be pushed along the line-wire until the hook reaches the point where the next coil is to be made. The stays can be formed of wires out -to the desired length, and any suitable wirecan be used for this purstay to be coiled is placed against the linefwire and, projecting beyond the same a suitable distance, with the projecting end resting in the wire-receiving seat of the projection 8. The implement is then swung around the linewire as a center the desired number of times.

to coil the stay around the line-wire to the extent desired through the medium of the projection 8, which rotates around and a dis-- tance from the line-wire and rolls or presses the stay end around and down on the linewire in the form of a coil.

The implement can be used for various purposes in coiling one wire on another and is exceedingly simple and durable in construction and easy and efiicient in action.

What I claim is' 1. A tool for the purpose described, comprising a U-shaped rod at one end provided with a line-wire-receiving open coil, and at the other end provided with a linewire-re' To I The i Ioo encircling guide and liHe-wire-receiving coil formefll by an open syirsill having a sid? opend-' in t e extremity 0 t e other. arm orme 1 Wi th a line-wire-receiving socket in aline I JOHN DILAN' Witries's'es'z' w JAMES PRITCHARD,

F. A. KRADWELL.

,4 In testimony whereof I allix my signature 1n presence of two Witnesses.

5 ment with said coil and having the lateral Wire engaging and coiling projection, substantially as described. I 

